Dean Foods Looks Toward Volume Improvement
November 07 2016 - 10:30AM
Dow Jones News
Dairy distributor Dean Foods Co. said its revenue fell but
volume declines slowed in its latest quarter.
The milk seller said the 1% decline in volume was the best
year-over-year volume performance in at least four years and that
it expects a continued improvement in volumes.
Shares rose 2.7% to $18.95 in morning trading.
Dallas-based Dean Foods has been aiming to shift more of its
business toward branded milk and ice cream products that command
higher profits, at a time when alternatives like almond and soy
milk have cut into sales of traditional cow's milk.
In September, the company named Ralph Scozzafava as the
company's new chief executive, taking over on Jan. 1.
Lower raw milk prices helped the company's results. The company
said a measure of raw milk costs increased 12% from the second
quarter but fell nearly 8% from last year.
Dean Foods expects adjusted earnings per share for its fourth
quarter of between 37 cents and 45 cents. Analysts polled by
Thomson Reuters had expected earnings per share of 37 cents.
In all for the quarter, Dean Foods reported a profit of $14.5
million, or 16 cents a share, down from $20.2 million, or 22 cents
a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, earnings per share
were 37 cents as analysts had expected 36 cents in adjusted
earnings.
Revenue slipped 3.4% to $1.96 billion, meeting analyst's
expectations.
Write to Austen Hufford at austen.hufford@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 07, 2016 10:15 ET (15:15 GMT)
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